Raises
- League and cup games (+2% for a win, +1% for a draw and +0.5% for a loss)
- Friendly Cup games (always +1%)
- Friendly games (+0.75% for a win, +1% for a draw and +0.5% for a loss)

decreases
- Transfers (paying + free) (-5%)
- If the field quality is less than 60% you lose a certain amount of TS.
- Simulation of the new season: -10% of current TS

doesn’t change
- when receiving a new youth player
- when sacking a player or a staff-member.

§ Players and transfers
The position of a player is the position he prefers. At this position he will perform at his best. On other positions his performance will be less good. This decrease depends on the position, the further he is away of his normal position, the lower his performance will be.SW: this means sweeper. He will only perform at his best when he plays in a defence with 5 defenders, in this order: LB-CB-SW-CB-RB. You can also put him on a CB-position, but then he will perform 5-6 points worse.
The performance of the players depends on their age. A player of 17-years won’t perform as good as a player of 25. Field players will perform at their best when they are 20-30 years. For goalkeepers, this age is a bit higher: 23-33 years. Players will also regain less fitness when they are too young or too old. Players from 21 to 28 years regain 15% fitness during the simulation of 4 am (CET). For playes younger than 21 years and 29 or older this is only 10%. And if players really get old: +33, their fitness raises only 5%.
Injuries can occur during games, but also during the training. The chance of getting an injury depends on how good you fysio is, the fitness of your players and a special (invisible) skill: ‘injury-sensivity’. About the fysio: the higher is rating is, the less chance your players have on an injury. The number of days an injury lasts is just an esimation of your doctor. A doctor of 100% will have a better estimation than a doctor of 50% , BUT there stil is a chance that he is wrong. This could be negative (the player is longer injured), but also positive (he will be healed earlier than estimated).
Skills: player can train their skills untill it’s red. Than they reached their maximum and we will not evolve anymore at that skill. The maximum number of players you can have is 45. Only 1 exception on this: you can still receive youth players, no matter how many players you have. Nevertheless, if you have 35 players, you can not buy any players. So to reach those 45, you need 34 players and a scout of 100%. With that 100%-scout you can place bids on 11 players at once. So if they all sign for your team, you have 45 players.Transfers: Within a period of 2 seasons, you can only buy 1 player of the same team. Unless you are a SPFA-member. (more info: Manager – SPFA – What is?) Then you can buy 3 players of the same team in that 2-season period. For selling players to 1 and the same team, you have to put yourself in place of the buyer. So if he has SPFA, you can sell 3 players to him. If not, only 1.

§ Youth centre
There are 3 different types of youth centers: simple, professional and hyper modern. The period between 2 youth players depends on the type of youth centre you have. Respectively, every 60, 30 or 20 days you receive a message concerning your youth player.
A club starts without a youth centre and while building a simple youth centre no youth players will be trained. After finishing this construction, the first training courses take off. You may expect a first youth player within 20 days, if he's good enough he will join your club. Meanwhile it is possible to start building improvements, this will not hamper ongoing courses.
Each time a youth player is promoted, a new period begins. The length of this period depends on the current youth centre a club possesses. For example if a club has a professional youth centre, the period will be approximately 30 days.
Finishing the construction of an improved youth centre does not change this period. Only when a youth player is promoted, a new period is started and a team will benefit from its enhanced infrastructure. Players promoted from a youth centre will have the same nationality as their manager.
The level of your youth player depends on your youth coordinator. The better he is, the more chance you will have that youth player will reach a high global rating. No matter if you reached the maximum number of players (45), you still can receive youth players.

§ Training
You can choose between an automatic training (decided by your coach) and your own training schedule. With automatical training, the quality of the schedule depends on how good your coach is. In optimal circumstances, the main skills (skills in bold) are trained first and when they’re maxed he trains the lowest skill. So you have to update this frequently so that he changes to another skill. The speed of the training also depends on the skill of your coach. A coach of 100% lets your player’s skill increase 2% each training. But because of the numbers behind the comma, which we as managers can’t see, it could be that a player only increases by 1%. Something else that influences the training speed is the age of a player. Players between 20 and 30 train faster than players under 20 or above 30 years. Players train every simulation, no matter if they played a game or not.

§ Games and ratings
Playing games has a negative influence on the players’ fitness, but a positive influence on th player’s morale (+5%). Players that play a game with a low fitness, have a higher chance to get injured. And he high moral means a better performance of the player. The ratings a team gets during the game (defence, midfield and attack) are based on the players’ performance, teamspirit, agression and the tactic you choose. The individual performance on the other side is based on the player’s skills, his fitness, his agression and the individual order. The agression you select for a game only has an influence on the number of cards you receive and the line ratings. It has nothing to do with the chance of getting an injury or injure your opponent.

About friendly games:

• Red cards received in a friendly don’t count for suspensions. Same for friendly cups.
• Once you’ve subscribed for a friendly cup, it’s impossible to cancel it. Only the organiser of the friendly cup can decide to cancel the cup.
• Everybody can subscribe in 5 friendly cups, but SPFA-members can participate in 9 at the same time.

Distribution of the prize money for friendly cups:
1st: 50%
2nd: 25%
3rd and 4th: 12.5%
(the sum of the subscription fee, is the money that will be divided)

§ Stadium
The stadium is important for every club. It’s not just to give your team a place to play their games, also your fans have to feel comfortable and support the team. If you win a lot, your fanbase will grow. So it’s necessary to expand your stadium regularly. By doing this it’s very important to mind the percentages between the number of seats and the other stuff like toilets, parking, ... This percentages are close to this:
- Parking: 35-40% of the number of seats
- Toilets: 1-1.5%
- Bars: +/- 0.5%

The field is very important concerning your teamspirit and the performance. When you have a low-quality field, it could be that you lose TS, get a fee, or lose by forfait.
A very big source of revenue in your stadium are the boardings. Each sponsor gives you an offer for a certain period and amount of money. This changes every day. So it’s important to have patience and wait for the big offer. Below 10,000 seats: for every 1,000 seats, you get 1 boarding. The only exception is when you have 4,000 seats, then you have 5 boardings. Once you’re over 10,000 seats, you get 1 boarding for every 2,000 seats.

§ Individual orders
You can find the individual orders in your tactics. It’s not necessary to use them every game. They only give an addition (flexibility) to your way of playing. This makes it more difficult for your opponent to predict your tactic. So it’s very important to understand this feature very well.

(e.g.: midfielder as offensive: stronger offence, but a weaker midfield.)

Important remark: this has no influence on the performance of the player individually.

Skill-based orders
Off course it’s different when you want to use a skill-based order. This presents quantity instead of quality. So it doesn’t make your player run faster (increase his skill) but lets him run MORE. The only thing you have to do know is counting.

Example: a CM with next skills:

Heading: 70
Shooting: 80
Passing: 95
Playmaking: 95

When you now look at the individual orders of CM’s, you see the only order they can use is passing. Passing does increase playmaking and passing, but decreases heading and shooting. So this player has a total of 190 points on the skills that will increase with this order and only 150 on the skills that will decrease. So the right IO for this player would be passing.

So start experimenting which order makes your player play better. To make it more easy for you, Peja and OscarCookie developped a tool for SP: http://spmt.sohosted.com/index.php .

§ Promotion and relegation
In this topic you can find the prize money that is rewarded when you finish the season at number 1-5.

Your Staff : First of all, make sure you have a complete staff!(so not just a trainer, physio and a doctor)
Then send 'm all on a course, unitil they all reach the 100%.This is very important for you and your team!

Your Training : Every player has two main skills (the two most important skills, these are in bold). Train all your player on these headskills until the skills turn red. Then train them on stamina until it reaches about 50%. After this you can start training whatever you want, if stamina remains above 50% and the headskills are maxed. This way you have a sort of impression of how good your player will become (mainskills) and you can let him play games without losing too much fitness (because of high stamina).

Your Transfers : The wisest thing to do is to buy a good player on the central position of every line.
I mean: a GK, a CB, a CM and a CF.
Make sure they are at least 60%, aren't too old and don't have a high agression (maximum 70%).

Your youth : Investing in youth is a very wise thing.The sooner you start with that, the better!
PLayers from your youth facility are young and have more chance of becoming a good player.(my very first youth player became 87%!(Rabiu Murcy) )

Your bank players : Make sure you always have 2 matches a day.This way, your A- and B-team can play a lot.On Saturdays, you don't play at all.This is so the fitness of your players keeps in shape.I recommend you don't plpay friendly cups yet.You would only loose money, and you can't control de dates of the matches.Friendlys are very good.There's no price in a friendly, and you can do whatever you want without consequenses (except injuries).

One last hint : be very very careful with your money.It slips away so easy, and in G it's certainly not easy to make some money...

Ok, I've updated the FAQ's. They're translated from the Dutch forum. So it could be that there are many errors, but just send one of the moderators a pm, and we will change it. Maybe I will read it once over, but not now.

regicider wrote:I tot we get an extra boarding whenever we add capacity by 1000?

I increased from 4000 to 5000.

does it mean i only get the extra boarding when i increase from 5000 to 6000?

Thanks.

Yes, that's correct. Until you reach 10000 seats, you get one boarding for every 1000 seats. Above 10000, you get one boarding for every 2000 seats. But there is one exception: when you start the game, you get a 4000 seats stadion with 5 boardings instead of 4. Therefore you don not get an additional boarding when you increase from 4000 to 5000. You will get an extra boarding when you increase from 5000 to 6000.